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Is It Safe to Keep Employing a Cleaner? Wrong Question, Lady

— Is It Safe to Keep Employing a Cleaner? Wrong Question, Lady - The New York Times, Roxane Gay in The New York Times

Mouse-feeder welfare check

— Mouse-feeder welfare check, Will Cafferky

What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

— What a World Without Cops Would Look Like Mother Jones, Madison Pauly in Mother Jones

Minneapolis Will Dismantle Its Police Force

— Minneapolis Will Dismantle Its Police Force, Council Members Pledge, Dionne Searcey and John Eligon in The New York Times

What If Working From Home Goes on forever?

— What If Working From Home Goes on forever?, Clive Thompson in The New York Times

In Praise of the Walking Coffee

— In Praise of the Walking Coffee, Rachel Sugar in Grub Street

The Bosses Are In Their Country Houses

— Newsrooms Are in Revolt. The Bosses Are in Their Country Houses., Ben Smith in The New York Times

A Case for Turning Empty Malls Into Housing

— A Case for Turning Empty Malls Into Housing, Patrick Sisson in Citylab

Michaela The Destroyer

— Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You' Will Tear You Apart, E. Alex Jung

Thandie Newton Profile

— Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready To Speak Her Mind, E. Alex Jung in Vulture

British Slave Businesses

— There are British businesses built on slavery. This is how we make amends, Catherine Hall in The Guardian

Demonise Spotify

— I Am Here To Demonize Spotify, Richard Beck in n+1

Falling Fertility Rates

— Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born, James Gallagher for BBC News

Igbo Orthography and The Ndebe Script

— Writing Africa's Future in New Characters, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sú in Popula

The London floor plan

— What’s Behind the Iconic Floor Plan of London, Fergus O'Sullivan in CityLab

Murakami's Translationese

— On Translationese, Masatsugu Ono in The Paris Review

You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

— You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument, Caroline Randall Williams in The New York Times

Pay discrimination at Pinterest

— Discrimination charges at Pinterest reveal a hidden Silicon Valley hiring problem, Katharine Schwab in Fast Company

UK Domestic abuse victims rising under Coronavirus lockdown

— As Domestic Abuse Rises, U.K. Failings Leave Victims in Peril, Amanda Taub and Jane Bradley in The New York Times

Notebooks

— Notebooks, Yooshua Wuyts

Bread Farmers

— Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!, Bret Devereaux

Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America

— Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America, Ed Yong in The Atlantic

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

— The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free, Nathan J. Robinson in Current Affairs

Noname Book Club

— Black Book Clubs From Oprah to Noname, Iman Stevenson in The New York Times

Remote Works Sucks

— Our remote work future is going to suck, Sean Blanda

The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System

— The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System, Ed Yong in The Atlantic

How South Asian corner shop culture helped the UK survive Covid-19

— How South Asian corner shop culture helped the UK survive Covid-19, Sana Noor Haq in Gal-Dem

How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness

— How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness, Tom McTague in The Atlantic

Rich writers showing themselves up about COVID-19

— The Afflictions of the Comfortable, Michael Massing in The American Prospect

Historical Cookbook Database

— A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It, Reina Gattuso in Atlas Obscura